I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

—Solomon Short

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It is well that war is so terrible—otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

—Solomon Short

Any great truth can—and eventually will—be expressed as a cliche—a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

—Solomon Short

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

—Solomon Short

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Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace.

—Paul Murray in Skippy Dies

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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

—Carl T. Rowan

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Fools are without number.

—Desiderius Erasmus

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